apt and RH EL ES3

[Jeff Macdonald]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:19:33 -0400, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have a decent sources.list file for apt which will work for
> a RH ES3 system?

I use up2date as it supports APT and YUM repositories. I should say
the up2date that Whitebox provides (Whitebox is a RHEL 3.X clone).

> Also, whose this 'dag' guy?  I've been warned that his
> packages could really mess up my system.

Dag maintains a lot of rpms that are not part of RHEL. See
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/. I've been using his and
freshrpms http://freshrpms.net/ repositories. At times when the rpm is
available at RH up2date seems to get stuck. Commenting out the 3rd
party repository lines in the sources file seems to clear things up.

My line for dag:
yum dag http://apt.sw.be/fedora/1/en/$ARCH/dag

I don't have freshrpms handy at the moment (my home system uses it).

-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA